Ignore the sick tweets, the kneejerk verdicts and the latest Frankie Boyle
joke, and the brutal truth is that a woman has been violently killed and her
boyfriend has been charged with murder.

It could be dismissed as a horrible personal tragedy, the sort that often
happens in violent communities, but the shock is seismic because it involves
a sports star who changed the world.

The unanswered questions about what happened and why in South Africa yesterday
led to an ugly frenzy of speculation about Oscar Pistorius. Six months on
from winning further golds at the Paralympic Games in London,